Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.